Re: Can I undo a "fixboot" command during a recovery attempt ?

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From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:07:48 -0600

You can run;
fixboot D:
or any other drive letter to mark it as active and write the boot sector to
it. 

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Lee" wrote:
| Hi,
|
| Long story, but tried a fixboot from a command prompt while trying to
| get a cloned HD to boot.  This apparent hosed a different partition on
| the same drive.
|
| Windows complained I had a non-standard MBR. Which is apparent true.
|
| The partition is the 4th and last on an 80gig Seagate according to
| PartitionMagic.  When running the MAP from the command prompt it was
| listed as a 36G Partition 1.
|
| This explains my problem booting (the system partition was listed as
| partition 2).
|
| The drive is now mounted as a slave - and I need to repair that
| partition somehow.  Disk size/used/unused info is incorrect now, and
| it doesn'thave a serial number anymore.
|
| Any pointers on where to start/ how to proceed ?
|
| Thanks,
|
| L.
|
|

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